LCC Celebrates Silver Bells in the City with an Old Fashioned
Radio Play"Meet me in St. Louis" Free to Public
Friday night at 8:00 p.m.

LANSING 11/9/11 – Members of the public are invited to
LCC’s Dart Auditorium on Friday, November 18 after the Silver Bells in the
City parade to enjoy a free performance of the radio play, “Meet Me in St.
Louis.” It is recommended that attendees arrive about 7:45 p.m. as the
program will be broadcast live over the radio beginning at 8 p.m.

Most of the main actors are students from
LCC’s Music Theatre Class with their instructor, Connie Curran,
as music director. Dave Downing, WLNZ General Manager, will
direct the music, actors, and sound effects.

“Meet Me in St. Louis” was first performed
as a radio play in 1946 as part of The Lux Radio Theater. It was
the radio version of a famous 1944 film that starred Judy
Garland. The 1946 radio play also featured the actress.

The play tells the story of an American
family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition World’s Fair in 1904. Among its famous songs are the
title song, “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “Have Yourself a Merry
Little Christmas,” and “The Trolley Song.”

Radio plays were popular during the Golden
Age of Radio from the early 1920s into the 1950s when television
became the dominant form of broadcasting. They were
performed live before studio audiences and sound effects were
produced from the stage.